The Very Independent Police Complaints Commission
Now rebranded as the Very Office for Police Conduct. The personal opinions of the author throughout.
Welcome
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Where are they now.
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Gow goes west.
It appears that some time ago Alison Gow left Reach PLC. It would be nice to think someone at Reach found out about her ethical and moral failings, but I don't think it is possible to have sufficiently low ethics or morals to be a risk to the reputation of such a repugnant organisation.
I suppose it possible the Gow found that Reach PLC was below her high standards. That is however very very unlikely.
More likely she just found some, likely unethical, way to make more cash. I believe North Wales used to have some of the highest standards of morals in the country. They must however be in steep decline in the Snowdonia area if Gow can avoid being run out of town.
Monday, July 15, 2024
It is another date for Ged Fitzgerald.
It has been a while coming, but it looks like Ged Fitzgerald and the Operation Aloft crew will be having their day in court in September 2024. See Ex-Lancashire Council leader Geoff Driver trial date set for 2025; Three men accused in the same investigation will also stand trial next year.
It not straight forward though, in September 2024 David McElhinney, Phil Halsall, and Ged Fitzgerald, all ex Liverpool City Council staff, will be at Manchester Crown court for various charges. Then 7 months later they be back for another trial, this time with Geoff Driver.
Despite the article I'm quoting being copyright MGN, this hasn't appeared in any paper or broadcast media. It has all been hush, hush. One question is will the 2nd trial prevent reporting on the first? Where does this leave operation Aloft. Sheridan only covers Lancashire County Council, while Aloft is Liverpool City Council?
An epidemic of lack of integrity.
You only have to search for her name and police to find out that she has been quite happy to use her MP status at other times.
Sunday, December 25, 2022
The parasite's new apologist.
I'm sure that a large focus of her job will be humanising journalists to the population, so people feel sympathy for them. It is a job Reach will only do for its staff and the most socially destructive criminals on its patch.
Of course Whittington doesn't allow people to comment on her posts, how typical of journalists. Hypocritical to the core.
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Gill's snide land.
However the biggest single group are the self-serving it is all about them, they are indoctrinated to believe they are the cream of the cream who deserve all the success they can get no matter what they have to do to get it. This goes a long way to explain the BBC's Andy Gill, who till a few minutes ago I hadn't realised was an Oxfordman but it makes sense.
I've never knowingly communicated with Andy but he was spread some now know bollocks about me by a snapper at the Liverpool Echo and perhaps a local high-profile solicitor. The solicitor has had to retract allegations he made about made claiming it was mistaken identity, though he never explained where the info came from.
The scant information presented to him would not be enough for a person of integrity to come to any conclusion, let alone act on it, but that didn't stop Andy. It is the kind of snap judgment that a qualification from Oxbridge entitles you to make and one which you fellow Oxbridgers and Oxbridge sycophants will make sure you suffer no ill effects from making.
Andy used to give me a hard stair every time we crossed paths after the encounter outside Liverpool Crown court. This of course makes me think that together with my Oxbridgephobia he was given some other tips on how to annoy me.
Sunday, September 18, 2022
MPs Staff
I've dealt with the offices of several MPs and their staff. They don't inspire confidence. The four offices varied from plain abusive through snide to just idiotic. They seem to have got the job based on a shared ideology, not their ability to interact with the public.
One of them whose personal behaviour was snide/borderline abusive was Chris Lloyd, who worked for Louise Ellman. In a court case, I was involved in had statements from Lloyd, the mild-mannered solicitor developed a loathing for Lloyd based purely on his victim statement. In the end, the CPS seems to have developed a similar opinion of Lloyd and the other staff members, leading to their removal from the case as victims.
The MP went out of their way to ensure that their statements never ended up in court, and so they could not be cross-examined in public.
Ellman was the chairperson of the Transport Select Committee. When Lloyd left Ellman's office, he secured a nice gig working for Network Rail. I wonder what Network Rail thought it was getting from someone with a Politics with Law degree in a PR position. Though perhaps the qualification wasn't the important thing.
It seems that Lloyd is back on the campaign trail. See "Greenwich councillor Chris Lloyd misses out in the race to be Westminster candidate".
Thursday, August 25, 2022
Court news.
It seems that Ged Fitzgerald is about to get his day in court, well, actually several weeks.
He will be joined in the dock by Dr David McElhinney, Philip Halsall, Gerard Fitzgerald, and Geoff Driver. This is in connection with Lancashire County Council but the 1st 3 all have connections with Liverpool City Council as well.
The enquire is said to centre around One Connect joint venture between BT. A similar scheme, Liverpool Direct was running in Liverpool up to 2014.
Press release from Lancashire police.
The court thing happened and complete silence.
I wrote to the approriate court and asked for a copy of the reporting retrictions and again complete silence. I can only conclude that their are none otherwise the they would have replied say it is not possible.